A legal expert says eight former police officers acquitted of fabricating a case that led to three innocent men being jailed could face a retrial.

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Murder case ‘could have retrial’

Say it with flowers, goes the saying. But sometimes the message is not so innocent – that beautiful garden may have more to do with spin and intrigue, says historian Lisa Jardine.

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A Point of View: The shady side of gardening

Say it with flowers, goes the saying. But sometimes the message is not so innocent – that beautiful garden may have more to do with spin and intrigue, says historian Lisa Jardine.

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A Point of View: The shady side of gardening

Say it with flowers, goes the saying. But sometimes the message is not so innocent – that beautiful garden may have more to do with spin and intrigue, says historian Lisa Jardine.

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A Point of View: The shady side of gardening

“Forrest Gump,” the multiple-Oscar winning 1994 film starring Tom Hanks as an American innocent navigating the social changes of the 1960s and 1970s, was named to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry on Wednesday, along with 24 other films deemed worthy of preservation at the library’s conservation facility in Culpeper, Va. Read full article > >

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They believed that their son was innocent but were afraid that Virginia’s penal system would grab hold of him and never let go. So Cherri Dulaney and Edgar Coker Sr. told 15-year-old Edgar Jr. to plead guilty to raping a 14-year-old friend. Their court-appointed attorney told them that was better than risking adult charges and a lengthy prison term. Read full article > >

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Va. family still suffers effects of guilty plea to false charge

The Metropolitan Police is to be investigated over whether it could have prevented trouble at a funeral that resulted in the death of an innocent bystander.

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Met probed over funeral gun death

The Metropolitan Police is to be investigated over whether it could have prevented trouble at a funeral that resulted in the death of an innocent bystander.

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A 21-year-old man shot dead in a street in south London a week ago appears to have been “an innocent bystander”, Scotland Yard says.

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Herman Cain emphatically denied on Monday that he had ever sexually harassed anyone, calling allegations of harassment by two former employees “totally baseless and totally false” and saying that he is the innocent victim of a “witch hunt.” With the allegations threatening his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Cain acknowledged in an interview with Fox News Channel the harassment charges during his tenure as head of the National Restaurant Association. He said he had been “falsely accused.” Read full article > >

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Three masked people who approached a car at a stoplight in the Petworth area of the District of Columbia and yelled “trick or treat” were no innocent Halloween revelers, police said. It was about 7:45 p.m. Saturday when a motorist stopped for a traffic signal at 13th Street and Arkansas Avenue NW, and three people in masks came up to the car, police said. Read full article > >

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“Trick or treat” robbers try to steal car in DC

Slain Libya leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, says he is innocent of crimes against humanity, an international prosecutor says.

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While the Obama administration was busy last week tamping down reports that the Japanese government has scuttled President Obama’s plans to visit Hiroshima and publicly apologize for America’s dropping of the atom bomb , another apology received less notice. According to the Charlotte Observer, an official from the State Department called the family of American al-Qaeda terrorist Samir Khan “to offer the government’s condolences on his death in a U.S. drone attack last week in Yemen.” Apparently Khan, who was killed alongside Anwar al-Awlaki, was not on the U.S. government’s targeting list , making his death “collateral damage” in the eyes of the Obama administration. So an official from the State Department called his family — much as they might the families of innocent women and children accidentally killed in a U.S. strike — to express our condolences for his accidental death. Read full article > >

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RICHMOND — Thomas Haynesworth sorted mail and made copies early Tuesday at his clerical job in Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II’s office. Then Cuccinelli went to work for him. In a vaulted courtroom, Cuccinelli passionately tried to convince a Virginia appeals court that Haynesworth is an innocent man. That the state made a mistake when Haynesworth was convicted of rape three decades ago. That his name should be cleared. Read full article > >

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The son of the Lockerbie bomber tells the BBC that his family believe he is innocent of the atrocity and that he is very ill.

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Megrahi ‘very sick’, says his son